Hard drive showing less space than I actually have


  1. Posts : 4
    Windows 7 64 bit
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    Hard drive showing less space than I actually have


    I have a Seagate 7200.12 Barracuda 1tb drive. If I go into my drive and highlight all items, including hidden ones, it shows up at 392gb, which should be give me approximately 540gb left. However, if I click properties of my drive, it shows that I only have 14.9gb left. I already tried the whole shadow drive and it was originally set at around 250gb, now I've changed it to 15% of my drive, but the amount of free space remains the same. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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  2. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
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    Ill be up front with you, I cannot answer the question.

    The good news is, THIS can.
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  3. Posts : 4
    Windows 7 64 bit
    Thread Starter
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    hey thanks for the response, i attached an image of the diskdetective that shows about 421gb of used space, and yet my computer still says 14gb/931gb free. So what do I do now? Thanks a lot. It's my I:/ drive.
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    This talks about xp but the principles are the same. It accounts for a small portion of the loss

    Why Is My New Hard Drive Missing Space? - Text Files on BrettBits.com (Flash Games, Music, Video)
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  5. Posts : 4
    Windows 7 64 bit
    Thread Starter
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    i understand how my 1tb drive is only 931gb but i'm missing about 500gb from my hard drive.
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    windows 7
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    I have the same problem with my win7 c drive. It says its full from my pc in explorer but when I do a scan with a different software it tells me that only 23GB of the 40GB is occupied. Any solutions?
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  7. Posts : 4
    Windows 7 64 bit
    Thread Starter
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    hey akill2 i actually fixed my problem by using the problem windirstat. it showed what was eating up my hard drive space and it turned out to be that I was storing my Windows backup on my I drive. Try that.

    Thank you for downloading WinDirStat from Download.com
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